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@aoifeglee.bsky.social
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I make video games & I’m tired of the internet | Narrative Designer @ INTERIOR/NIGHT | She/Her | Irish | 🇵🇸

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Charlot Kristensen @zolwia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Your Ed Sheeran outrage is valid but could you help my Palestinian friend become more self-sufficient 👀👀👀??? chuffed.org/project/1853...?
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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GamesRadar+ @gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert www.gamesradar.com/games/japane...
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Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert
"They didn't get swept up in the live-service trend, or into these mega-blockbusters with 500-person teams"
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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
daily reminder ✨
DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/07/2026
@aftermath.site literally does not exist without paid subscribers. It's (currently) the only way we make any money. While it's cool that over 25,000 people are subscribed to our newsletter, 'free' members actually COST us money to host, so the more people we can get signing up, the better:
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We're Having A Sale!
We've got discounts on both our monthly and annual offerings
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AoifeG @aoifeglee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Labour after watching the Tories rip through PMs youtu.be/Po4adxJxqZk?...
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But it might work for us!
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G Dutreix @geedutreix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If any video game that is made uses ChatGBT Gemini Grok Banana whatever the fuck, I’m not buying it. “guess you’ll get left behind—“ GOOD. I like video games for the art, you like video games for the capital. We are not the same.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Incredible alt text, incredible turtle
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Polygon @polygon.com · 23/07/2025
Could the next Among Us be this co-op game about an Irish urban legend?
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Could the next Among Us be this co-op game about an Irish urban legend?
In Eyes of Hellfire, “not everything is as it seems — including your friendships,” says director
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Fourteen Thousand. The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.
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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.
You accept the far right’s entirely false premise that immigrants increase crime, that the housing crisis is due to migrants rather than your own bad policies, or that foreigners are swamping the health service, rather than holding it up with their bare hands in the face of your own drastic underfunding of the system.

And you become less popular. You, the sensible moderate, continue to slide in the polls against the very parties whose policies you were trying to steal. 

A sizeable number of your own base are appalled, and you have failed to impress a single racist. 

Because everywhere, from France to Germany to the Netherlands to the UK, as with Fanta and its supermarket imitators, it turns out people prefer the original to the copy.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14/05/2025
I will entirely skipping @eurovision.tv again for its unacceptable shameless political choice to platform a violent, terrorist, genocidal Israel. You should too, even if Eurovision is "fun" or "massive for engagement" - the EBU is choosing to ignore genocide. Don't be like or support the EBU.
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AoifeG @aoifeglee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
GenAI has basically wrecked lofi easy listening autoplay Youtube, so I’ve been building out this writing playlist that is mostly composed of game soundtracks. The difference is palpable. Turns out listening to flat loops can make you feel flat! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Writing Background Music - YouTube
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m on a list of cures for centrist dads 😂
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
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Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It's rare that I see an entry-level writing job in games so I wanted to share that Media Molecule is hiring a writer. www.brightnetwork.co.uk/graduate-job... On site in Guildford.
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Media Molecule - Writer 2025
Apply today for the Writer 2025 with Media Molecule. And find the best graduate job opportunities on Bright Network.
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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Generative AI is melting our only planet. Don’t use it. ChatGPT wastes 10x the amount of water as Google. And last year, Google was in talks to purchase 8 nuclear reactors in order to power their own AI. This is not sustainable. Stop using it today. It’s literal Earth Day.
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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Hey everyone, I have opened up limited commission slots to raise funds for my rent. Get a cute model for 100$ USD! my commissions are my only income at the moment after a lot my clients dried up to AI. DM me if you are interested! (please share it helps alot!)
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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 20/04/2025
with the switch 2 price increases i've seen multiple posts lately going "why should i pay $70-$80 for a AAA game when i can buy five indie games for that price" and like. i appreciate the sentiment, but you realize that those indie games realistically should cost more but are undercharging, right
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Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar.  She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK
Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards.
Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'.
@fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
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Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
There are plenty of scenarios in which spending time and money on features and options is the appropriate solution to barriers. But don't let yourself end up in a situation where you have spend money on them solely to compensate for unnecessarily exclusionary design choices.
Batman slapping robin meme. Robin - "we can't afford features". Batman - "don't design a need for them" *SLAP*
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Craig Breathnach-Irish Writer for Games and Comic Books(He/Him) @craigbreathnach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I've whipped up a pair of Starter Packs for anyone interested in the Irish Game Development Scene. I created these to help promote accounts here and help peers in the industry find each other, and also to stop pestering @doomcube.bsky.social about updating his list everytime I find a new account. 😅
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Imagine if Biden had imposed tariffs on an island full of penguins
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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I am like two slots away from making rent tomorrow, consider a slot! DM me if you are interested! my commissions are my only income at the moment please share
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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I am opening limited commission slots! 100$ USD for a model on a simple background! price negotiable! my comms are my only income at the moment and I need to make rent DM me if you are interested (please share, it is super appreciated ❤️)
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Chrissy “CASKET OCT 16/CILC” Music @cilc.gay · 24/03/2025
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 24/03/2025
Girls no longer just want to have fun, girls want revenge.
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Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s Abundantly Clear The ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Controversies Are Nothing www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
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It’s Abundantly Clear The ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Controversies Are Nothing
Now that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has launched and players a have gotten their hands on the game, they’ve discovered something: This is an Assassin's Creed game.
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
reminder that @kennysbookshop.bsky.social is the longest-running online bookshop *on the entire internet* (!!!) they have FREE postage in ireland (and it's not so expensive to mainland europe, either) don't give any money to jeff bezos and his employee-abusing company, go straight to kennys.ie
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better. First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...
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A tale of two Taytos: How an anthropomorphic crisp became a symbol for Irish identity
How a half-man half-crisp in a suit became a symbol of the Irish diaspora—and an important part of the Brexit deliberations
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/03/2025
Oh neat, March 28 is national "Smash Your Amazon Echo Devices With A Hammer" day.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It is MY stance that if you are a role model of any sort on a team, it is your moral duty to set and hold firm work/life boundaries, and never let them be crossed. The juniors on a team can ONLY do this if their seniors are setting those boundaries first.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I would like to see ANY of the pundits and intellectuals who've spent the last decade pissing and moaning about cancel culture dedicate at least 1/100th of that energy to the ongoing explicitly identity-based purges at the behest of professional propagandists, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is the first time I spoke publicly about my experience getting harassed for the rumors about being a self-insert on Spider-Man 2. It’s becoming increasingly more dangerous to be a marginalized game dev. This affects all of us, so give this article a read ❤️
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19/02/2025
Hi! Just a reminder that Aftermath, a website with no ads and no corporate owners, is ENTIRELY supported by our readers. We can't do this without you! If you're not already a subscriber please consider helping us out (and getting some blogs in return): aftermath.site/products
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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hyperloop, boring company, full self-driving, cpap machines when promising ventilators during covid, promising to clean Flint's water, promise to save the kids in a cave, promise to land on mars...
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Deadly Osmanthus Soup is BACK ON THE MENU! @madpierrot.design · 16/02/2025
For reference: Procedural generation is shuffling a deck and dealing from it. genAI is feeding every card deck you can find, including ones not for the game, into a wood chipper, slapping a handful of the bits on some glue, and pretending its a playable hand.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Appeasing the far-right won't placate them — they'll just want the next cruelty
Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.
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Teobear🐻💗 @ellteo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This isn't due to anything specific, but I do want to say; If you are telling artists or creatives to make weirder and more unmarketable art, it is in fact your obligation and duty at that point to promote/pass around/support those creatives when they *do* make that weirder art. Otherwise we can't!
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
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AoifeG @aoifeglee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
These dinguses would scold someone bailing water out of a rapidly sinking boat for splashing them, while ignoring the guy shooting holes in the boat. Absurd.
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